Advanced Audit Skills Program
Start Date | End Date | Venue | Fees (US $) | ||
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Advanced Audit Skills Program | 23 Nov 2025 | 27 Nov 2025 | Doha, Qatar | $ 4,500 | Register |

Advanced Audit Skills Program
Start Date | End Date | Venue | Fees (US $) | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Advanced Audit Skills Program | 23 Nov 2025 | 27 Nov 2025 | Doha, Qatar | $ 4,500 |
Introduction
Internal and external audits contribute in many ways to the smooth running and proper accountability of an organization. Ever-increasing demands are placed on the skills and expertise required of audit practitioners to add value to the organization and provide assurance. Our Advanced Audit Skills course will confirm best practices in risk-based auditing, examine the latest developments and their impact on auditors' work, and introduce advanced techniques enabling participants to undertake effective audits of diverse activities.
Objectives
- By the end of the course you will be able to:
- Improve governance, risk management and integrity in your organisation
- Apply the principles of risk-based auditing to a wide range of operations
- Plan and conduct audit assignments using the latest standards and techniques
- Extend the boundaries of audit work and undertake specialist audits
- Introduce control self-assessment and risk workshops
- Develop and enhance the audit function, maximising its value
Training Methodology
This is an interactive course. There will be open question and answer sessions, regular group exercises and activities, videos, case studies, and presentations on best practices. Participants will have the opportunity to share with the facilitator and other participants on what works well and not so well for them, as well as work on issues from their own organizations. The online course is conducted online using MS-Teams/ClickMeeting.
Who Should Attend?
Practicing auditors and audit managers in the public, private and NGO sectors, the course is open to any participants with some experience of standard audit practices in business or government.
Course Outline
The Dynamic Audit Role, Environment, and Contribution
- Developments and current issues in auditing
- Foundations of audit: assurance, advisory, and other roles
- Forms of audit and review: roles and responsibilities; audit committees
- Impact of the latest audit standards, from IIA, INTOSAI, and others
- Best practices in risk-based auditing; the role of audit in risk management
Leading-edge Auditing: Practices and Techniques
- Updating the charter; strategic audit planning
- Auditing the critical systems, risks, and controls - financial and other
- Control assurance reporting; using control self-assessment
- Auditing systems under development
- Computer-assisted auditing techniques (CAATs)
Audit skills, Qualities, and Competencies
- Managing the client and other relationships
- Conducting risk workshops; audit and consultancy
- Communication and interviewing techniques
- Auditing the control environment and "soft" issues
- Developing and leading the audit team
Extending the Audit's Scope
- Enhancing the audit service; making audit more effective
- Developments in governance and enterprise risk management
- Performance ("value for money") audits
- Corporate social accountability; ethical and environmental audits
- Business integrity; fraud and corruption prevention programs
Exam:
- There is a pre and post exam